From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: pasic@linux.ibm.com, brijesh.singh@amd.com, pair@us.ibm.com,
dgilbert@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, andi.kleen@intel.com,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>,
frankja@linux.ibm.com, thuth@redhat.com,
Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, richard.henderson@linaro.org,
kvm@vger.kernel.org,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
david@redhat.com, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>,
mst@redhat.com, qemu-s390x@nongnu.org,
pragyansri.pathi@intel.com, jun.nakajima@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 10/13] spapr: Add PEF based confidential guest support
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:52:36 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210113005236.GB435587@yekko.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210112095612.GE1360503@redhat.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 3004 bytes --]
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 09:56:12AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 03:45:05PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > Some upcoming POWER machines have a system called PEF (Protected
> > Execution Facility) which uses a small ultravisor to allow guests to
> > run in a way that they can't be eavesdropped by the hypervisor. The
> > effect is roughly similar to AMD SEV, although the mechanisms are
> > quite different.
> >
> > Most of the work of this is done between the guest, KVM and the
> > ultravisor, with little need for involvement by qemu. However qemu
> > does need to tell KVM to allow secure VMs.
> >
> > Because the availability of secure mode is a guest visible difference
> > which depends on having the right hardware and firmware, we don't
> > enable this by default. In order to run a secure guest you need to
> > create a "pef-guest" object and set the confidential-guest-support
> > property to point to it.
> >
> > Note that this just *allows* secure guests, the architecture of PEF is
> > such that the guest still needs to talk to the ultravisor to enter
> > secure mode. Qemu has no directl way of knowing if the guest is in
> > secure mode, and certainly can't know until well after machine
> > creation time.
> >
> > To start a PEF-capable guest, use the command line options:
> > -object pef-guest,id=pef0 -machine confidential-guest-support=pef0
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> > ---
> > docs/confidential-guest-support.txt | 2 +
> > docs/papr-pef.txt | 30 ++++++++
> > hw/ppc/meson.build | 1 +
> > hw/ppc/pef.c | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > hw/ppc/spapr.c | 10 +++
> > include/hw/ppc/pef.h | 26 +++++++
> > target/ppc/kvm.c | 18 -----
> > target/ppc/kvm_ppc.h | 6 --
> > 8 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 docs/papr-pef.txt
> > create mode 100644 hw/ppc/pef.c
> > create mode 100644 include/hw/ppc/pef.h
> >
>
> > +static const TypeInfo pef_guest_info = {
> > + .parent = TYPE_OBJECT,
> > + .name = TYPE_PEF_GUEST,
> > + .instance_size = sizeof(PefGuestState),
> > + .interfaces = (InterfaceInfo[]) {
> > + { TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT },
> > + { TYPE_USER_CREATABLE },
> > + { }
> > + }
> > +};
>
> IIUC, the earlier patch defines TYPE_CONFIDENTIAL_GUEST_SUPPORT
> as a object, but you're using it as an interface here. The later
> s390 patch uses it as a parent, which makes more sense given it
> is a declared as an object.
Oops, that's a holdover from an earlier version that used an
interface. Fixed.
--
David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_
| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-13 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-12 4:44 [PATCH v6 00/13] Generalize memory encryption models David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 01/13] qom: Allow optional sugar props David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 02/13] confidential guest support: Introduce new confidential guest support class David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:46 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 2:09 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 03/13] sev: Remove false abstraction of flash encryption David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:44 ` [PATCH v6 04/13] confidential guest support: Move side effect out of machine_set_memory_encryption() David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 05/13] confidential guest support: Rework the "memory-encryption" property David Gibson
[not found] ` <20210112115959.2c042dbb@bahia.lan>
2021-01-13 0:50 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 12:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 06/13] sev: Add Error ** to sev_kvm_init() David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 07/13] confidential guest support: Introduce cgs "ready" flag David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 08/13] confidential guest support: Move SEV initialization into arch specific code David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 09/13] confidential guest support: Update documentation David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 10/13] spapr: Add PEF based confidential guest support David Gibson
2021-01-12 7:56 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-12 8:36 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:52 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-12 9:56 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 0:52 ` David Gibson [this message]
[not found] ` <20210112122750.5dcd995c@bahia.lan>
2021-01-13 0:56 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 11/13] spapr: PEF: prevent migration David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 12/13] confidential guest support: Alter virtio default properties for protected guests David Gibson
2021-01-12 4:45 ` [PATCH v6 13/13] s390: Recognize confidential-guest-support option David Gibson
2021-01-12 8:15 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-12 11:36 ` Cornelia Huck
2021-01-12 11:48 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-12 11:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-01-13 0:57 ` David Gibson
2021-01-13 6:57 ` Christian Borntraeger
2021-01-13 23:56 ` David Gibson
2021-01-12 9:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20210113005236.GB435587@yekko.fritz.box \
--to=david@gibson.dropbear.id.au \
--cc=andi.kleen@intel.com \
--cc=berrange@redhat.com \
--cc=borntraeger@de.ibm.com \
--cc=brijesh.singh@amd.com \
--cc=cohuck@redhat.com \
--cc=david@redhat.com \
--cc=dgilbert@redhat.com \
--cc=ehabkost@redhat.com \
--cc=frankja@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=groug@kaod.org \
--cc=jun.nakajima@intel.com \
--cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com \
--cc=mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
--cc=mst@redhat.com \
--cc=mtosatti@redhat.com \
--cc=pair@us.ibm.com \
--cc=pasic@linux.ibm.com \
--cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
--cc=pragyansri.pathi@intel.com \
--cc=qemu-devel@nongnu.org \
--cc=qemu-ppc@nongnu.org \
--cc=qemu-s390x@nongnu.org \
--cc=richard.henderson@linaro.org \
--cc=thuth@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).